Non-commercial site that will become commercial

[Marcia]

I'd like to do a site that's strictly informational, and assume if it's not commercial I won't have to use Business Express. Is that right?

Down the road it will become commercial and have a product added. If it's in the Yahoo Directory, will there will be a problem when the product is added?

[mark_roach]

The only experience I have with Yahoo is having had my non biz express submissions ignored. However I would expect that if you got a submission in for free and then added your product you would be OK. I can not imagine that they re-review sites and kick them out.

As an aside how do you define a non-commercial site ?
I would say that any site that contains paid banner ads or any kind of affiliate links is commercial. Where does Yahoo draw the line ?

[Marcia]

>how do you define a non-commercial site ?

No banner ads, no affiliate links. Just information, done pretty much like a hyperlinked term paper. It'll have a banner if I put it on a free host where there's automatically some page rank inherited, but it won't be my banner. So I figure it's essentially non-commercial that way.

[satanclaus]

Not that you'd want to go this way but why not submit it as commercial initially. You'll get the editorial response for sure that way and not be in the dark about why the site didn't get listed if that occurs.(heaven forbid) If you've got a few extra bucks it may be worth it.

[NFFC]

>if it's not commercial I won't have to use Business Express

I don't think it is as simple as that. If the cat you need/want is deemed commercial then you will still have to pay. Often there is one "best" cat to place the site, if this is a commercial cat then you must pay.

>Down the road it will become commercial and have a product added

Ah, bait and switch. :)

[2_much]

It'll work initially. But you run the risk of the site getting reviewed and dropped.

I've had a few sites that we've changed products, and they survive for a while but about 70% have gotten moved to a more appropriate category after some time elapsed.

It could go either way.

[Crazy_Fool]

I'm about to try submitting a non-commercial site that will later become commercial .... fingers crossed ....